Organization Funding
Funding Opportunities
New Jersey Cultural Trust | Guidelines Released for New Jersey Cultural Trust’s FY26 Institutional and Financial Stabilization Grants for History & Humanities Organizations | The New Jersey Cultural Trust, in partnership with the New Jersey Historical Commission (NJHC), has released the guidelines for its Fiscal Year 2026 grant program, Institutional and Financial Stabilization Grants for History & Humanities Organizations (IFS History/Humanities). The IFS History/Humanities program addresses the financial and institutional challenges that threaten nonprofit history and humanities organizations’ stability, helping them build greater operational capacity. | Virtual Application Assistance Workshops: May 6 and May 22, 2025 | Declarations of Intent to Apply Deadline: June 11, 2025 | Full applications due on July 17, 2025. | More information and application.
New Jersey Economic Development Authority | Historic Property Grant Survey Program: Applications are OPEN | The Historic Property Survey Grant Program is a $400,000 pilot program that will provide grants up to $125,000 for the preparation of Historic Property Surveys throughout the state that include within the defined scope, properties located within a Government Restricted Municipality or that would be considered distress asset/s. | Application and Information.
New Jersey Division of Travel & Tourism | FY26 Cooperative Marketing Grants | The Cooperative Marketing Grant Program is a collaboration between the New Jersey Department of State, Division of Travel & Tourism and the New Jersey travel industry, whose goal is to promote New Jersey as a premier travel destination. Funding will be provided to promote and market specific tourism opportunities in New Jersey. The Cooperative Marketing Grant Program is open to any New Jersey organization that can demonstrate a significant interest in the New Jersey tourism industry. Organizations must show a match of 25% from partners or sponsors that are Non-State funding sources. State funds awarded for the Cooperative Marketing Grant plus the non-state match must be spent on your marketing program. The match cannot be in-kind, cash on hand or bartered services. | Deadline for Declaration of Intent: June 6, 2025, 3:30 p.m. est. | Application Deadline: June 13, 2025, 3:30 p.m. est. | More information and application.
Atlantic County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs | NEW! Special Initiative Funding for Historical Organizations and History-Related Projects | The Atlantic County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs (ACOCHA) is offering a Special Funding Initiative for the first time in FY 2025. Funding is available to non-profit organizations who are new/emerging organizations or organizations requiring a small amount of funding for history-related projects/professional development. This funding has a simplified request process and short time-frame from request to award. The Special Funding Initiative Program is a pilot program intended as an introduction to the County History Partnership Program (CHPP) grant program. Priority will be given to first-time applicants and those who are not receiving FY25 grant funding from the Atlantic County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs. Requests will be accepted on a rolling basis throughout the year. | Deadline: Ongoing throughout the year | More information.
Ocean County Cultural & Heritage Commission | FY26 Grant Applications Information | Prospective 2026 County Arts & History Grantees: Applications may be submitted only after a Madatory Declaration of Intent has been filed on or before August 20, 2025. | Deadline to Apply: September 8, 2025 by 5pm EST | More information and application.
New Jersey Economic Development Authority | Cultural Arts Facilities Expansion Program – CAFE | The CAFE Program awards tax credits via a competitive application process up to 100% of eligible project costs. Minimum project size is $5 Million. Maximum award is $75 Million. | Deadline: June 6, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. | More information and application.
Community Foundation of New Jersey | Field Trip New Jersey | Field Trip New Jersey provides funds to help school children in underserved communities across New Jersey access the arts and culture, historical landmarks, nature preserves and science institutions, and college campuses. The fund will make field trips possible for more students across an even wider range of disciplines and interest areas. | More information and application
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation | Acres for America Grants | Acres for America, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's premier land conservation program, provides funding for projects in the United States that conserve important large-scale habitats for fish, wildlife, and plants through voluntary land acquisitions and perpetual conservation easements. Program priorities include conserving critical habitats for birds, fish, plants, and wildlife; connecting existing protected lands to unify wild places and protect critical migration routes; providing access for people to enjoy the outdoors; and ensuring the future of local economies that depend on forestry, ranching, wildlife, and recreation. | Deadline: May 20, 2025 for pre-proposals | More information and application.
School Based Healthcare Solutions Network, INC. | Principal Student Support Services Grants | The School-Based Healthcare Solutions Network (SBHSN) is offering a new grant opportunity for public school principals interested in implementing student mental health support services. Grants are currently available in CT, CO, FL, GA, IN, KY, MI, MS, NV, NJ, VA, and WI. Grant funds must be used to expand access to mental health support services for students with a documented history of chronic absenteeism, behavioral challenges, or declining academic performance. The grant provides a fully funded mental health professional for each school campus who will deliver evidence-based mental health support services directly to students. In addition, qualifying schools are eligible for up to $5,000 per year, renewable for five years, to support student service initiatives aligned with the program’s objectives. | Deadline: None | More information and application.
Infinite Hero Foundation | Programming Grants to Help Military Members and Veterans | Infinite Hero Foundation exists to connect military, veterans, and military family members with innovative and effective treatment programs for service related injuries. Support is provided to U.S. nonprofit organizations committed to creating or working with cutting edge technologies, methods, practices, or products that address the mental and physical challenges faced by military heroes and their families. Grants are provided in five categories: physical recovery, brain health, suicide prevention, veteran leadership development, and military family support. | Deadline: June 15, 2025 | More information and application.
Bloomberg Green | Bloomberg Green Docs Competition | The Bloomberg Green Docs competition seeks to explore the climate future with documentaries that reveal the world people are making today. The competition is open to filmmakers who have produced a short documentary that addresses the urgency of climate change. Filmmakers must submit a documentary film that is no more than ten minutes in length on a topic related to nature, global warming, the outdoors, or the environment generally. The top five entries will be shown at the Bloomberg Green Docs Film Festival. The grand prize winner will receive a cash award. | Deadline: May 23, 2025 | More information and application.
Inter American Press | Awards for Excellence in Journalism | The Inter American Press Association's Awards for Excellence in Journalism honor media and journalism professionals from North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain. The contest is open to content published in Spanish, English, or Portuguese between June 1, 2024, and May 31, 2025, in newspapers, weeklies, magazines, news agencies, digital media, radio, and television. Awards are made in 14 categories, most of which are endowed with a $2,000 USD first prize. | Deadline: May 31, 2025 | More information and application.
Vadon Foundation | Grants for Indigenous Communities | The Vadon Foundation supports innovative community-based initiatives in the United States that sustain healthy, thriving Indigenous nations in perpetuity. The focus is on programs working to ensure that every successive generation of Indigenous people and culture will face an increasingly brighter future of healthy self-determination, autonomy, evolution, and sustainability. Areas of interest include language revitalization; missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two‑spirit people; innovative community leadership; and COVID-19 food insecurity and essential needs. The first step in the application process is to send the Foundation an introductory email or call to discuss the proposed program. | Deadline: None for introductory inquiries. | More information.
Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation | Funds Advance Social Impact Organizations in the U.S. and Other Regions | Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation (DRK) is a global venture philanthropy firm supporting early-stage social impact organizations solving the world’s biggest social and environmental problems with bold, scalable approaches. Support is primarily provided in Africa, Europe, India, and the United States, although projects in Latin America and Israel may be considered in select situations. DRK seeks social entrepreneurs with dynamic products or services that have a proven ability to positively impact the lives of underserved people. DRK supports these organizations at the early stages by providing capacity, capital, and community. Capacity support includes operational and technical support, both through a hands-on board service role and specialist capacity-building resources. Capital of up to $300,000 USD over a three-year period is provided as either unrestricted grant funding or investment capital. Nonprofit organizations (U.S. 501(c)(3) organizations and non-U.S. equivalents) and mission-driven for-profit entities are eligible to apply. | Deadline: Ongoing | More information and application.
Finish Line | Louder Than Words Grants | The JD Finish Line Foundation's Louder Than Words grants seek to support diverse and underserved communities in the company's corporate Indianapolis, IN, neighborhood as well as communities across the United States. Applications are currently being accepted through the Foundation's health and wellness funding cycle, with a focus on participation in programs focused on personal development, an active and healthy lifestyle, or mental health. Funded programs must create positive impact specifically in diverse communities. (Funding cycles focused on workforce development and safe communities are offered later in the year.) | Deadline: May 15, 2025, for the health and wellness funding cycle | More information and application.
Verizon | Verizon Disaster Resilience Prize | The Verizon Disaster Resilience Prize, a collaboration between Verizon and MIT Solve, seeks technology-driven solutions that strengthen disaster resilience in U.S. communities. The Prize has a particular interest in innovations that enhance early warning systems and disaster preparedness, improve emergency response and resource coordination, strengthen infrastructure and protect vulnerable communities, and support long-term recovery and community resilience after weather-related disasters. Four selected solutions will receive $250,000 in funding to advance their initiatives. Solutions can be for-profit, nonprofit, and hybrid organizations. | Deadline: June 13, 2025 | More information and application.
Vilcek Foundation | Grants for Nonprofit Organizations | The Vilcek Foundation’s grants empower nonprofits to expand their reach, engage diverse audiences, and advance their missions. The foundation is committed to working with organizations that exemplify best practices in their field and demonstrate dedication to the communities they serve. | Deadline: June 30, 2025 | More information and application.
Mary’s Pence Grant Program | Grant Opportunities for Grassroots Women’s Organizations | Mary’s Pence funds grassroots women-led and -focused nonprofit organizations or groups working with a fiscal sponsor. Eligible organizations have budgets of $250,000 or less. They are located in the U.S. and their work takes place in the U.S. Mary's Pence funding is focused on social justice actions that are long term and create sustainable systems change. Mary's Pence values subsidiarity—that is those who are most impacted are part of the decision-making. Funds are provided to organizations whose work centers on human dignity, the common good, the right to economic security, dignified work, care for the earth, gender justice, and nonviolence. | Deadline: Initial funding inquiry forms may be submitted at any time and are reviewed from April to June and from October to December, annually. | More information and application.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) | AWS Imagine Grant Program | The AWS Imagine Grant Program U.S. supports nonprofit organizations in the United States who are using cloud technology to accelerate their missions. The program seeks to fund a diverse set of projects that leverage cloud technology for mission impact across the nonprofit sector. All mission and cause areas are welcome, excluding educational institutions. Awards are provided in three categories, based on an organization’s goals and the stage of their technology adoption journey. The Pathfinder - Generative AI award provides support for highly innovative, mission-critical projects that leverage generative AI. The Go Further, Faster award provides support for highly innovative projects that leverage the cloud. The Momentum to Modernize award provides support for infrastructure projects that allow nonprofits to transform and enhance their core mission operations with technology, such as migrating servers to the cloud and modernizing new and existing applications. | Deadline: June 2, 2025 | More information and application.
Ameriprise Financial | Grants for Organizations Meeting Basic Needs Initiatives and Community Vitality Programming | Ameriprise Financial corporate grantmaking is dedicated to strengthening neighborhoods across the country where company employees, advisors, and clients live and work. Grantmaking focuses on meeting basic needs, including hunger, shelter, and adult self-sufficiency; community vitality, including community development and cultural enrichment; and organizations in their Minneapolis headquarters community that have active Ameriprise Financial volunteer engagement. Preference is given to organizations demonstrating volunteerism by Ameriprise Financial employees and advisors. | Deadline: May 15, 2025 | More information and application.
Kubota | Hometown Grant Program Applications OPEN | Kubota’s Hometown Proud community grant program will invest in communities across the country by awarding 10 grants in 2025. Each grant is valued at $50,000 (includes $25,000 cash and $25,000 equipment voucher). Kubota will announce the 10 winning hometown projects on September 1, 2025. Nonprofit organizations with a community project are encouraged to enter; the application is easy: just fill out the form and upload a short video! Now in its 5th year, the Kubota Hometown Proud grant program has helped fund various projects across the country, from building agricultural education centers to revitalizing community gardens, and we are proud to support initiatives that make a lasting impact on a local level. What project is important to YOUR hometown? Tell us about it; we’d love to help. | Deadline: July 31, 2025 | More information and application.
Arts Organizations
Believe in Reading | Grants for Reading and Literacy Programs | Believe in Reading funds programs in the United States dedicated to the teaching and encouragement of reading for all ages. Funding is considered for programs that serve any age or aspect of supporting reading and literacy, including adult literacy, English as a second language projects, or Braille-related projects for the blind or visually impaired. The focus is on successful literacy programs that serve populations showing out of the ordinary needs, such as geographic areas with low reading scores and high poverty levels. Nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations, equivalent educational institutions, and public libraries are eligible to apply for support for existing, successful literacy programs that have been established for a minimum of two years. | Deadline: None. | More information and application.
NDN Collective | Radical Imagination Grants | NDN Collective's Radical Imagination grant supports visual and performance-based artists, writers, filmmakers, storytellers, and other creatives who are deeply engaged with their communities to develop alternative visions that inspire the Indigenous movement towards a new future and just world for all people and Mother Earth. $50,000 grants will support eight individual Indigenous artists, artist collectives, or small nonprofits for the development and amplification of their work. The grants support efforts 1) proposing solutions to dismantle structural racism while defending air, land, waters, and Indigenous rights; 2) working to build a just world for all people and Mother Earth; and 3) reclaiming Indigenous lifeways while amplifying community voices to dismantle inequitable systems. | Deadline: May 28, 2025 | More information and application.
Amazon Literary Partnership | Grants | The Amazon Literary Partnership seeks to fund organizations working to champion diverse, marginalized, and underrepresented authors and storytellers in the United States. Eligible applicants are nonprofit organizations whose core mission is to develop emerging writers, support diversity, celebrate storytelling, or build authors' careers. Previously funded organizations and programs include nonprofit writing centers, residencies, fellowships, after-school classes, literary magazines, national organizations supporting storytelling and free speech, independent publishers, and poetry and translation programs. | Deadline: May 18, 2025 | More information and application.
Venturous Theater Fund | Venturous Capital Grants | Venturous Theater Fund’s Venturous Capital Grants support productions of new plays perceived as especially challenging at nonprofit theaters across the U.S. Support is provided for productions of text-based, author-driven new plays that are ambitious in scale, epic in scope, challenging in form, controversial in subject matter, experimental in concept, or unabashed in their theatricality. The grants support specific extraordinary costs that might otherwise make venturous plays difficult or impossible to produce, not routine production costs. Small- and medium-sized nonprofit or fiscally sponsored theaters with annual budgets of under $5 million are eligible to apply. Theaters must be professional, independent producing organizations that produce plays on Actors’ Equity Association contracts. | Deadline: Letters of inquiry for the next cycle will be accepted from May 1 to June 2, 2025. | More information and application.
History Organizations
New Jersey Cultural Trust | Guidelines Released for New Jersey Cultural Trust’s FY26 Institutional and Financial Stabilization Grants for History & Humanities Organizations | The New Jersey Cultural Trust, in partnership with the New Jersey Historical Commission (NJHC), has released the guidelines for its Fiscal Year 2026 grant program, Institutional and Financial Stabilization Grants for History & Humanities Organizations (IFS History/Humanities). The IFS History/Humanities program addresses the financial and institutional challenges that threaten nonprofit history and humanities organizations’ stability, helping them build greater operational capacity. | Virtual Application Assistance Workshops: May 6 and May 22, 2025 | Declarations of Intent to Apply Deadline: June 11, 2025 | Full applications due on July 17, 2025. | More information and application.
New Jersey Cultural Trust | FY 2026 Institutional/Financial Stabilization Grants for History & Humanities Organizations | For FY 2026, the New Jersey Cultural Trust Board has authorized the New Jersey Historical Commission to accept applications from history and humanities organizations for institutional and financial stabilization projects to recommend to the Cultural Trust for funding. Declarations of Intent to Apply (DOIs) will be due in SAGE on June 11, 2025, at 3 p.m. Full grant applications will be due in SAGE on July 17, 2025, at 3 p.m. | More information.
Science History Institute | Oral History Training Institute | The Center for Oral History is pleased to provide training to scholars and researchers interested in learning oral history and research interview methodologies. This online workshop will introduce attendees to all aspects of the interview process, including general oral history theory and methodology, in-person and remote interviewing techniques, legal and ethical issues, transcription practices, archiving, recording equipment and its use, data management, and other relevant topics. | Dates & Times: May 19 · 10am - May 22 · 1pm EDT | Pricing, information, and registration.
William Paterson University | Volunteer Judges Needed for New Jersey History Day | Love history and learning? Help inspire the next generation! Join us as a Judge for New Jersey
History Day! We’re seeking enthusiastic volunteers to engage with student history projects and
evaluate their creativity, presentation, and scholarship. In one exciting day, you can make an
impact that lasts a lifetime! INTERESTED IN JOINING US? | Email njhistoryday@wpunj.edu with questions. | More information and registration.
New Jersey Library Association | NJLA Annual Conference: Breaking Barriers- Simple Kindness | Each and every year, NJLA, NJASL and NJLTA invite all types of librarians and library workers, supporters and vendors to participate in engaging discussion, thoughtful workshops and presentations, networking and professional development during this three-day conference. | Dates & Times: Wednesday, May 28, 2025 to Friday, May 30, 2025 | Location: Harrah's Casino, 777 Harrah's Boulevard Atlantic City, NJ 08401-1911 United States | More information and registration.
American Alliance of Museums | Call for Papers for Exhibition Journal | To remain relevant to our communities, we have an obligation to engage with contemporary topics and events, and to do so in ways that have the potential to broaden conversations and lead to understanding and engagement. So, how can we get comfortable with stories that have no ending? How do we sit with uncertainty and not knowing, while striving for nuance, accuracy, and possibility? For this issue, we seek examples of innovative approaches to exhibiting in the present tense. | Deadline: Proposals are due June 3, 2025 | Submission information.
American Association for State and Local History | National Survey of History Practitioners | From AASLH: “Help us learn about the people who work in our field. Thank you for participating in the National Survey of History Practitioners. This study, conducted by the Public History Research Lab of the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH), seeks to better understand the roles, demographics, compensation, and perspectives of the people working or volunteering at history organizations, including history museums, historic sites, historical societies, and related organizations. This survey is intended only for practitioners at history organizations. | Survey.
Underground Railroad Museum of Burlington County | Save the Date: “Experience of a Lifetime”- Juneteenth Celebration | Experience our 3.5 Mile Freedom Trail Walk through the Rancocas State Park to Timbuctoo (11am, 1pm, and 3pm). Once you reach Timbuctoo enjoy the celebratory events that include entertainment, dancing, storytellers, Taste of Freedom, vendors, food trucks, and a gospel concert! FREE EVENT | Date & Time: Saturday, June 14, 2025 (11am - 6pm) | Location: Starts at Rancocas State Park in Westampton, NJ | More information.
Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts | Succession Planning for Cultural Institutions: 2 Webinars Available | This program of the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts is provided with generous support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. 2 webinars are now available to view: Part One | Research Findings | Part Two | Resource Roadmap | More information available here.
Northeast Document Conservation Center | Funding Resources | The NEDCC has compiled a list of funding opportunities and resources pertaining to museums and cultural institutions. Fore more information, visit their website.
American Association for State and Local History | Six Strategies for the Looming Crisis | AASLH’s blog post on how to face uncertain times is a useful resource to view. Visit their website.
Humanities
New Jersey Cultural Trust | Guidelines Released for New Jersey Cultural Trust’s FY26 Institutional and Financial Stabilization Grants for History & Humanities Organizations | The New Jersey Cultural Trust, in partnership with the New Jersey Historical Commission (NJHC), has released the guidelines for its Fiscal Year 2026 grant program, Institutional and Financial Stabilization Grants for History & Humanities Organizations (IFS History/Humanities). The IFS History/Humanities program addresses the financial and institutional challenges that threaten nonprofit history and humanities organizations’ stability, helping them build greater operational capacity. | Virtual Application Assistance Workshops: May 6 and May 22, 2025 | Declarations of Intent to Apply Deadline: June 11, 2025 | Full applications due on July 17, 2025. | More information and application.
New Jersey Cultural Trust | FY 2026 Institutional/Financial Stabilization Grants for History & Humanities Organizations | For FY 2026, the New Jersey Cultural Trust Board has authorized the New Jersey Historical Commission to accept applications from history and humanities organizations for institutional and financial stabilization projects to recommend to the Cultural Trust for funding. Declarations of Intent to Apply (DOIs) will be due in SAGE on June 11, 2025, at 3 p.m. Full grant applications will be due in SAGE on July 17, 2025, at 3 p.m. | More information.
New Jersey Council for the Humanities | “Humanities” Forward Gatherings | The New Jersey Council for the Humanities will host a series of gatherings for organizations, professionals, and supporters across the state to discuss the current state of the humanities, funding, and how NJCH can continue to support critical humanities work in New Jersey. | Dates & Locations: Friday, May 16, at the William Trent House in Trenton, Wednesday, May 21, in South Jersey (location TBA), Wednesday, May 28, via Zoom, Wednesday, June 4, at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey in Summit | More information and registration.
New Jersey Council for the Humanities | Communities of Practice | A Community of Practice (COP) is flexible gathering of individuals united by shared interests and expertise, providing peer-to-peer support, learning, and networking opportunities. COPs may be cultivated around a topic, geographic area, professional practice, or other common concern for humanities practitioners. NJCH offers three COPs: Community college humanities, Oral history and story-gathering, Books and reading. | More information and COP registration form.
Cambridge University Press | Call for Papers for Public Humanities Journal | The new journal Public Humanities invites submissions for several themed issues, with offerings updated regularly. | Submission information.
